Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Grow we must, if we outgrow all that loves us. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Grow
Us
Outgrow
Related Quotes:
" Apology is only egotism wrong side out. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wrong
Apology
Egotism
" Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Often
Accurate
Mind
" Don't you stay at home of evenings? Don't you love a cushioned seat in a corner, by the fireside, with your slippers on your feet? "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Feet
Home
Stay
" The mind of a bigot to the pupil of the eye; the more light you pour on it, the more it contracts. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mind
Light
You
" The Amen of nature is always a flower. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Amen
Nature
Flower
" A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life
Moment
Sometimes
" A child's education should begin at least one hundred years before he is born. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Years
Born
Child
" Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Hearts
Home
Love
" Truth, when not sought after, rarely comes to light. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
After
Truth
Sought
" A person is always startled when he hears himself seriously called an old man for the first time. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old Man
Seriously
Man
" Wisdom is the abstract of the past, but beauty is the promise of the future. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wisdom
Abstract
Past
" The man who is always worrying about whether or not his soul would be damned generally has a soul that isn't worth a damn. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Worth
Damn
Always
" It is the province of knowledge to speak, and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Privilege
Wisdom
Speak
" There is no friend like an old friend who has shared our morning days, no greeting like his welcome, no homage like his praise. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Friend
Welcome
Morning
" We do not quit playing because we grow old, we grow old because we quit playing. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Because
Old
Quit
" Speak clearly, if you speak at all; carve every word before you let it fall. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Fall
Before
You
" Every event that a man would master must be mounted on the run, and no man ever caught the reins of a thought except as it galloped past him. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Man
Him
Master
" The real religion of the world comes from women much more than from men - from mothers most of all, who carry the key of our souls in their bosoms. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Women
World
Religion
" Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Fear
Love Is
Love
" Science is a first-rate piece of furniture for a man's upper chamber, if he has common sense on the ground-floor. But if a man hasn't got plenty of good common sense, the more science he has, the worse for his patient. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Common Sense
Good
Man
" Most people are willing to take the Sermon on the Mount as a flag to sail under, but few will use it as a rudder by which to steer. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Flag
People
Sail
" Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Know
Live
Music
" The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Rules
Man
Young Man
" Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it; most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Life
Bad
Good
" Some people are so heavenly minded that they are no earthly good. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
People
Some
Earthly
" Language is the blood of the soul into which thoughts run and out of which they grow. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Run
Grow
Language
" Controversy equalizes fools and wise men in the same way - and the fools know it. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Men
Fools
Know
" To be seventy years young is sometimes far more cheerful and hopeful than to be forty years old. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Old
Cheerful
Young
" To reach a port we must sail, sometimes with the wind, and sometimes against it. But we must not drift or lie at anchor. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Wind
Sail
Reach
" A goose flies by a chart which the Royal Geographical Society could not mend. "
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Mend
Goose
Flies